Henry Nevinson

Standard Name: Nevinson, Henry

Used Form: Henry W. Nevinson

Connections

Connections Sort descending	Author name	Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships	Evelyn Sharp	ES first met Henry W. Nevinson when she collided with him on an ice-rink at Knightsbridge. It was in late 1903 that they became close. John, Angela V. Evelyn Sharp: Rebel Woman, 18691955. Manchester University Press, 2009. 36, 38
Family and Intimate relationships	Evelyn Sharp	After a thirty-year friendship, the sixty-three-year-old ES married Henry Nevinson , a recent widower aged seventy-five, who was also a journalist and who had been her lover for thirty years. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Norquay, Glenda. Voices and Votes: A Literary Anthology of the Women’s Suffrage Campaign. Manchester University Press, 1995. 316
Family and Intimate relationships	Evelyn Sharp	Henry W. Nevinson , journalist, writer, and husband of ES , died at Chipping Campden in Gloucestershire. Nevinson, Henry. Visions and Memories. Editor Sharp, Evelyn, Oxford University Press, 1944. 166 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Family and Intimate relationships	Evelyn Sharp	About her turn-of-the-century years and her first group of literary friends, ES wrote later, we fell in and out of love with and without disaster, like other people. Sharp, Evelyn. Unfinished Adventure. John Lane, Bodley Head, 1933. 58 But the significant falling in love...
Friends, Associates	Mary Gawthorpe	MG 's correspondents included Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence , Alice Paul , Elizabeth Gurley Flynn , Elizabeth Robins , Helena Swanwick , Henry Nevinson , Havelock Ellis , John Galsworthy , Victor Gollancz , A. R. Orage
Friends, Associates	Mary Agnes Hamilton	MAH 's memoirs give detailed and affectionate pen-portraits of innumerable friends, made both at home and in many of the other countries she travelled or worked in. Many of her English friends are known names...
Friends, Associates	Evelyn Sharp	Others with whom she shared this or that memorable experience were the Meynells (Wilfrid , Alice , and Viola ), Clarence Rook and his wife, and Henry W. Nevinson , whom she eventually married...
Friends, Associates	Gladys Henrietta Schütze	Through her early mentor W. Pett RidgeGHS met various literary men: W. W. Jacobs , Barry Pain , Jerome K. Jerome , Hugh Walpole , and Ernest Temple Thurston . Pett Ridge (P...
Intertextuality and Influence	Gladys Henrietta Schütze	As a child GHSimagined that a person, particularly a lady, would have to be something very unusual to produce real books. Schütze, Gladys Henrietta. More Ha’pence Than Kicks. Jarrolds. 37-8 She was reassured by the ordinary appearance of Effie Adelaide Rowlands (pen-name...
Literary responses	Evelyn Sharp	Henry W. Nevinson called this article most beautifully done and excellent—and he was notoriously hard to please. qtd. in John, Angela V. “’Behind the Locked Door’: Evelyn Sharp, suffragette and rebel journalist”. Women’s History Review, Vol. 12 , No. 1, 2003, pp. 5-13. 8
Literary responses	Evelyn Sharp	Henry Nevinson , however, judged this to be Sharp's greatest book, worthy of comparison with Swift 's Gulliver's Travels or Samuel Butler 's Erewhon. Harold Laski , too, admired it. John, Angela V. Evelyn Sharp: Rebel Woman, 18691955. Manchester University Press, 2009. 122, 126
Occupation	Evelyn Sharp	ES was apparently an unusually effective public speaker. Henry Nevinson , her long-time lover and eventual husband, said she was driven to speech by a white-hot indignation that blazed in her words rather than in...
Publishing	Evelyn Sharp	ES took up full-time the great profession of journalism in 1904, Sharp, Evelyn. Unfinished Adventure. John Lane, Bodley Head, 1933. 93 after an absence from London for family reasons had interrupted her career as a freelance teacher. She had been a desultory journalist already...
Reception	Edith Mary Moore	In 1938, EMM 's name appeared in an early number of Kriticky Mesicnik, a Czech literary periodical edited by Václav Černý (reprinted in 1972 and 1992), in a list of British writers including Rosamond Lehmann
Textual Features	Evelyn Sharp	The diaries cover holidays, travel, her famine relief work in Russia (briefly excerpted in a pamphlet printed by the Friends Relief Committee), and in Britain the General Strike and civilian life during the Second World...

Timeline

9 December 1909

The Lord Chief Justice ruled in favour of forcible feeding of suffragists, arguing that it was the duty of the prison medical officer to prevent prisoners from committing suicide.

Tickner, Lisa. The Spectacle of Women: Imagery of the Suffrage Campaign, 1907-1914. University of Chicago Press, 1988.

105

After February 1917

Supporters of the Russian Revolution including Evelyn Sharp founded the 1917 Club to provide a venue for freely discussing the revolution without fear of attracting attention under the Defence of the Realm Act or Dora.

Sharp, Evelyn. Unfinished Adventure. John Lane, Bodley Head, 1933.

231

25 February 1934

Hunger marchers from the north of England arrived in Hyde Park, all very quiet but determined, confounding police warnings of anticipated violence.

John, Angela V. Evelyn Sharp: Rebel Woman, 18691955. Manchester University Press, 2009.

201

Texts

Nevinson, Henry, and Gladys Henrietta Schütze. “Introduction”. Where East is West. Life in Bulgaria, Jarrolds, 1933, pp. 7-8.

Nevinson, Henry. Visions and Memories. Editor Sharp, Evelyn, Oxford University Press, 1944.